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03 August 2012

Amazing
– the 1940 census has been accessible to the pubic for just 4 months and it is
now fully indexed!

This announcement
has inspired me to find my dad in this census!
Other than his birth record, it will be the only time he’s found listed
with his father who died the next year at the age of 26!

And, I found
him! He’s living with his parents,
sister, maternal grandfather and maternal uncle – so cool!

5-336, Salem, Essex, MA

And then I found his paternal grandparents living over in Peabody! And ... if I didn't need to get back to work I'd be looking for the rest of the family and then my husband's family, etc. Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend!

A searchable index to 134 million
records makes researching family history in the latest available U.S. Census
dramatically easier

PROVO, UTAH – (August 3, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, is proud to
announce that it has completed the records indexing process for the 1940 U.S.
Federal Census, which is available at www.ancestry.com/1940census. All 134 million records are now easily searchable by name, date, place
of birth and other key information recorded in the census. These records, which
are free to search, offer valuable insight for the nearly 90 percent of
Americans who either have family members recorded in the 1940 U.S. Census or
are in it themselves ...

Users can now find basic information such as their
ancestors’ names and where they lived, but also gain more insight about their
ancestors’ daily lives. This information includes whether they owned or rented
their home, the value of the residence and how many people resided there. For
the first time, census takers in 1940 also asked questions specific to income
and education. Interestingly, details like prior military service, the ability
to read or write, and whether citizens spoke English – all asked in prior
censuses – were not asked in 1940.

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